I do have a proper recipe for Slow Cooker Coq au Vin but this is an easy version.
I am seriously getting into easy cooking lately. I actually bought ready-made puff pastry nibbles for our first course last weekend.
I was in the frozen food store picking up scallops for our New Year’s Eve dinner (Coquilles Saint-Jacques) when … Continue reading.....
While I have a cave full of butternut squash my big blue Crown Prince pumpkins didn’t do as well.
First, they were kind of gnarly…. They all had these strange tan ridges / growths on the surface. I have no photos of them, sadly. The harvest was at the same time I was tending a sick Bonnie so taking photos … Continue reading.....
Our chickens appear to be getting bigger.
Back in the beginning of time, when I first started being creative in the kitchen, I used to skin and bone chicken breasts.
Yes, boys and girls, there was a time when one could not buy pre-packaged, skinless, boneless chicken breasts.
Or at least one couldn’t buy then where I lived.
Really.
I use skinned thighs – because I have dogs.
Also, because unless it’s crispy from frying / oven frying or grilling, I don’t particularly like it.
The dogs, on the other hand, love it.
Skin the thighs by simply pulling it off. You may need to cut in a few places. Then cut it up, reserving all the fat, fry … Continue reading.....
Once again we are cooking with the weather and not with the seasons.
Things are looking up, however. We had sunshine almost all afternoon today. I have hopes that the yellow leaves on my onions and the barely-grown acorn squash will turn green again once the ground dries up and they have a bit of sunshine.
Do leaves do that?… Continue reading.....
These are similar to the Chicken Wings that mon mari loves.
We didn’t marinate the thighs, just basted them the sauce, like we would for regular barbecued chicken.
And, of course, we saved half the sauce for dipping.
Total time: 40 minutes
Ingredients:
My books are unpacked!!!!!
It was exciting…
It also took forever.
Not the unpacking, so much as the organizing.
I had to track down all the odds and ends of books that had been dug out of various boxes or added to the library over the last 4 years.
Then I had to rearrange all of the other shelves where … Continue reading.....
My local supermarket had cranberries yesterday.
They looked a little long in the tooth – as if they’d been shipped from store to store, frantically looking for some one to buy them before they went totally toes-up.
I declined.
On principle, really.
I mean, if you can’t get them on the shelves in a timely manner….
Besides, I’m done with … Continue reading.....
